The son of Russian parents, Jo Davidson was born in 1883 in New York City's Lower East Side. He was an exhibitor in the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show that introduced modern art to America, but... Read full biography
The son of Russian parents, Jo Davidson was born in 1883 in New York City's Lower East Side. He was an exhibitor in the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show that introduced modern art to America, but became essentially an academic portrait sculptor in marble, bronze and terra-cotta. Davidson apparently... Read full biography
The son of Russian parents, Jo Davidson was born in 1883 in New York City's Lower East Side. He was an exhibitor in the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show that introduced modern art to America, but became essentially an academic portrait sculptor in marble, bronze and terra-cotta. Davidson apparently did not have his subjects pose, as such; rather it is said that he was an outgoing personality who preferred to observe and speak with them, getting to know them as people. His family intended him for... Read full biography
The son of Russian parents, Jo Davidson was born in 1883 in New York City's Lower East Side. He was an exhibitor in the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show that introduced modern art to America, but became essentially an academic portrait sculptor in marble, bronze and terra-cotta. Davidson apparently did not have his subjects pose, as such; rather it is said that he was an outgoing personality who preferred to observe and speak with them, getting to know them as people. His family intended him for a career in medicine at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, but he was attracted to art there. As a teenager, he had studied art at night at the Art Students League in New York City. Leaving Yale in 1903, Davidson again studied at the League,... Read full biography
The son of Russian parents, Jo Davidson was born in 1883 in New York City's Lower East Side. He was an exhibitor in the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show that introduced modern art to America, but became essentially an academic portrait sculptor in marble, bronze and terra-cotta. Davidson apparently did not have his subjects pose, as such; rather it is said that he was an outgoing personality who preferred to observe and speak with them, getting to know them as people. His family intended him for a career in medicine at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, but he was attracted to art there. As a teenager, he had studied art at night at the Art Students League in New York City. Leaving Yale in 1903, Davidson again studied at the League, this time with Herman Atkins MacNeil. In 1907, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne. David... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (67)
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Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016
Pollack, Deborah C.
200 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1994
National Gallery of Art
283 pages
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
Robert Laurent and American Figurative Sculpture 1910-1960 Selections from the John N. Stern Collection and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Tarbell, Roberta K.
55 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Painting a Place in America Jewish Artists in New York 1900-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kleeblatt, Norman L and Susan Chevlowe (Editors)
208 pages (color)
American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface)
110 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Rediscoveries in American Sculpture Studio Works, 1893-1939
1989
Conner, Janis: J Rosenkrantz
0 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
An American Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Richard York Gallery
88 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde
1977
Homer, William Innes
335 pages
American Art at the Century
1977
Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis
0 pages
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Art in the United States Capitol
1976
Editor for Architect of the Capitol
0 pages (color)
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
Santa Fe Collects (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
64 pages (color)
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Bronzes of the American West
1973
Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro)
429 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
The Armory Show International Exhibition of Art 1913 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Karpel, Bernard/Walt Kuhn
286 pages
The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle
80 pages
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
The Story of the Armory Show (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Brown, Milton W
320 pages
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Between Sittings
1951
Davidson, Jo
0 pages
Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Metropolitan Museum of Art
170 pages
Sculpture by Jo Davidson First Retrospective Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1947
American Academy A and L
24 pages
20th Century Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1942
Wheeler, Monroe
148 pages (color)
Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Art Institute of Chicago
110 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932 (Exhibition catalog)